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Specific => Mills and Farms => Topic started by: urbanexplorer on April 03, 2006, 10:10:24 PM

Title: smith and wesson gun factory
Post by: urbanexplorer on April 03, 2006, 10:10:24 PM
Hey have any of you guys ever been to the wesson firearms old gun factory in monson mass? i grew up there and oddley enough have never been inside this building last i knew(i have lived in ri for about 10 years now) it was still empty and sits on main street (on the south end of town)which is rte32 may be called high street now and is at the corner of bliss street the building is actually called wesson firearms and is made of granite so unless they knocked it down it certainly has not fallen down
Title: Re: smith and wesson gun factory
Post by: Prometheus on May 16, 2006, 05:35:53 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=main+st+%26+bliss+st,+monson,+ma&ll=42.091686,-72.311202&spn=0.00172,0.005364&t=k&om=1 (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=main+st+%26+bliss+st,+monson,+ma&ll=42.091686,-72.311202&spn=0.00172,0.005364&t=k&om=1)
Is that the building there? I also read this:
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/05grants/monson.htm (http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/05grants/monson.htm)
Sounds like the place is (or was) contaminated...
Title: Re: smith and wesson gun factory
Post by: urbanexplorer on May 16, 2006, 11:18:22 PM
yes this is the place but where they said it was open from 78-90 is wrong i grew up in that town and worked at zero corp across the street for a few years and as long as i can remember back to when i was a little kid that building was vacant the epa page you list sounds like they may be working at the old zero corp building on bliss street that was open from the  70s until the early 90s i know this about that building because my dad worked for zero corp at the old building and new building for a staggering 30 years before they were bought and closed .
so ever since i was about 5 i have been going into these two buildings.